what they are doing could be good for the environment, but both companies are interested also in creating a cost-competitive product that is a better economic alternative than the petroleum-based isoprene,
even if corporate sustainability wasn't as big as it is becoming? My sense is that the answer is yes,
#Who should pay for e waste disposal? HONG KONG Hong kong will soon have designated a facility for dismantling and recycling electronic products such as televisions, refrigerators and computers.
A tax will be added to the price tags of electronic products to help pay for e waste disposal. Based on a similar tax in other cities, the cost of home appliances is expected to go up by $12 to $30.
whether consumers should pay for all of the recycling costs. Some argue that retailers and manufacturers should pay for part of it to hold accountable all involved parties.
The current proposal places the recycling fee at the retail level and it is likely that retailers will simply charge the extra cost to consumers.
said Edwin Lau, general affairs director of Friends of the earth in Hong kong. Lau said in over 30 jurisdictions around the world,
the e waste fee is charged to the importer, as electronic products are manufactured frequently overseas. Of course producers have the responsibility to contribute a small part of their earning to the annual operation cost of the e waste recycling plant that will have our e waste properly dismantled
and recycled and reused,##Lau said. In California, there is a $10 fee added to the price of electronic products with viewable screens,
Several other U s. states charge e waste recycling fees to manufacturers. Right now, about 80%of Hong kong s e waste is exported to other cities and countries.
Many of these areas are poor and use polluting processes that are harmful to the workers health.
mobile devices are suited uniquely to the urban environment. They are such powerful connectors of people that they are literally replacing their need and desire for cars.
and that means increased density, urbanism, walkability and everything else required to bring our way of life in line with planetary boundaries.
But an increasing amount of that crude is staying in the country where it's used run to desalination and power plants.
The majority of Saudi arabia's fresh water comes from desalination, the process that turns saltwater into a drinkable supply.
The waste for one system becomes food for another system, Gansky said. Stress from the stagnant economy:
when the tsunami knocked out backup diesel generators and reactors overheated.""As the CPR-1000 increases market share, China is assuring that rather than building a fleet of state-of-the-art reactors,
is piloting an environmental monitoring system that helps agribusiness concerns be smarter about how much water they use.
Your approach is to create materials that fit into nature s recycling system. We have a plastic that s alive a living polymer.
You say mushrooms are nature s recycling system. Explain that. In general most of the things in plants that are hard to recycle,
in the environment for them to start biodegrading. Do you eat mushrooms? I do. And Gavin does not t
which were damaged heavily by the 2011 tsunami, Memeburn reported yesterday. That includes the#town of#Namie-machi,
and#HEART Tokushima have been working in partnership with#Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support to save over 700 animals the Great East Japan Earthquake.
What the NRC really knew about Fukushima Fukushima ocean radiation could pose sleeper threat Nuclear meltdowns nearly made northern Japan uninhabitable do need we to worry about radiation in our milk?
#Google unveils deforestation monitor to combat climate change The philanthropic arm of Google, Google. org, introduced on Thursday a deforestation monitor that could be a useful tool to combat climate change.
Using a new platform, its"high-performance satellite imagery-processing engine, "the company can crunch the massive amounts of data stored on Google's servers to instantly produce,
The platform, unveiled at the International Climate change Conference in Copenhagen, could be used as a tool for nations to comply with the United nations-proposed REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest degradation in Developing Countries) program
Based largely on data from the UK's Stern Review on the Economics of Climate change report,
the REDD program plans to offer money in exchange for the prevention of the destruction of forests deemed significant to curbing global climate change.
According to the Stern report, keeping forests intact is one of the most cost-effective ways to cut carbon emissions."
"Emissions from tropical deforestation are comparable to the emissions of all of the European union, and are greater than those of all cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains worldwide."
or environmental monitoring agencies s
#Huge spike in bus riders because of Wi-fi? Everyone is taking the curbside bus . Or at least 30%more of us are.
despite dissent from Greenpeace and other environmental organizations. Its current biofuel roadmap demands that at least 5. 75%of all energy sold on the market of any member country be biofuel
And with ILUC added to the mix, it looks like some top biofuel crops are worse for the environment, in terms of carbon emissions, than crude oil.
#Cheap Earthquake Warning Systems While predicting earthquakes remains a dream, scientists have developed early warning-systems systems that give people precious seconds to run out of buildings
That kind of warning might have saved hundreds of lives when a 7. 8-magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal on 25 april.
Earthquake-warning systems come at a high price, though, too high for countries like Nepal and others in quake-prone zones in South Asia,
along with GPS sensors to detect permanent ground movement due to the motion of the geological fault that triggers the earthquake.
If the latter, the system will calculate a hypothetical epicenter for the earthquake, the original time of the event,
For earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 4. 0, it will issue an alert. Benjamin Brooks, a geophysicist with the USGS, has a different crowdsourcing approach in mind.
with high earthquake hazards and minimal resources, is where a crowdsourcing approach would be most effective,
In research presented in the journal Science Advances two weeks before the Nepal quake hit, Brooks and his colleagues tested the ability of consumer-grade GPS devices to detect earthquakes.
Next, the researchers performed simulations using data from a hypothetical magnitude-7 earthquake in northern California and from the real 2011 magnitude-9 earthquake that hit Tohoku-oki
They simulated smartphone responses based on census data around the earthquake epicenters and recorded a phone as triggered
the system declared an earthquake. It took fewer than 5, 000 smartphones to detect the simulated California earthquake within 5 seconds,
giving enough time to warn San francisco and San jose. For the Japan quake, which had an offshore epicenter,
on the Wednesday before the Nepal earthquake I had a discussion with a Nepalese colleague about proposing precisely such an approach,
but be sure to use good headphones in a quiet environment. Stern compares the difference to the shift from standard resolution to HD television. t going to be subtle, not a huge difference in intelligibility,
this does not affect its biodegradability.""If we put it in a fungus environment, the fungus can still eat it,
"says the Wisconsin researcher. To create the green chips, the researchers started out with silicon
which would make chips conform to the pollution standards for arsenic set by the U s. Environmental protection agency.
After testing the material in an environment of pure water vapor at 100 degrees Celsius the researcher found that the graphene coating offered a fourfold improvement in heat transfer compared to bare metal.
a polymer coating solution started to degrade in the environment within three hours and completely failed within 12.
and distribute hydrogen is still the biggest hurdle to the wide deployment of green, CO2 EMISSION-free cars.
In addition to lowering CO2 EMISSION, the units produce little noise, making them suitable as mobile electricity generators in places, like field hospitals,
Hybrid Online/Offline Institutions Codecademy and Coursera are based two web ed-tech entrants that have created subsequently physical learning environments.
help address climate change, increase energy security and improve the competitiveness of U k. businesses. The scheme, which came into force in July 2014,
and administered by the Environment Agency intended to trim excessive energy use as a means to cut carbon
and d) report compliance to the Environment Agency by December 5, 2015. While the ESOS audits are mandatory,
according to the Department of energy and Climate change, could lead to on average a savings of £56, 400/$90, 240 per year, per business.
Uncovering pockets of energy waste requires appointing personnel familiar with the scheme; the only other option is to outsource,
taking into consideration that the U s. wastes an approximate $2. 8 billion in PC energy every year, the U k. may need to take a more effective approach to energy security.
and in May 2014, Congress blocked yet another energy-efficiency bill that could positively impact the environment,
Ideally, a partnership between U s. government and industry is essential for an energy policy to have a significant impact on the future of businesses and the environment.
and negotiate directly with customers in an online marketplace environment just like they do normally in their own physical store
Microfactories reduce negative impact on the environment by reducing waste, creating jobs, reducing freight and distribution costs and speed time to market p
and is one of many sustainability activities and renewable energy projects for powering our datacenters that we currently have in the works.
This could reduce congestion and pollution around the port. Moving To Smart Everything Sensors are not just the domain of industry though.
#Hardware Battlefield 2015 The majority of home climate control systems in the world just won work with Nest,
Sensibo is a startup that wants to make the approximately 1 billion climate control devices that aren smart to smart with a little more Nest-like.
but also automate your home climate control with intelligent features, including location-based activation, timer settings and a learning algorithm that the company claims can save you up to 40 percent on your home heating and cooling bills over time,
which counteracts the increasingly crowded roads, traffic and pollution. In other words, this is a classic (and, dare
which is designed for houses that have multiple rooms in need of climate control. Remote sensors help it monitor temperature in multiple rooms at the same time,
#Google Straps Aclima Sensors To Street view Cars To Map Air pollution If a city knows what intersections are full of smog,
so they and their local governments can see pollution on their own streets. Independent scientific analysis confirmed that the mobile sensor system worked for collecting street-by-street data
Herzl explains that e know that trees absorb pollution NO2 specifically. If we can know where pollution hotspots are,
we can know where to put green spaces. The Google partnership will allow it to rapidly scale the deployment of its sensors.
or pedestrians away from high-pollution areas to avoid exacerbating condensed pollution or breathing it in.
The ability to direct self-driving cars away from intersections where they might contribute to high-pollution zones could help convince cities theye a positive change.
which together account for some 45 percent of the globe total carbon dioxide emissions, pledged to make significant efforts in the next 10 to 15 years to limit their CO2 EMISSIONS.
It the first time China has committed publicly to halting the decades-long rise of its CO2 EMISSIONS.
However, due to economic factors and policy shifts, China may be poised to achieve this goal even earlier than promised.
China meanwhile promised that its annual CO2 EMISSIONS which have increased by 257 percent since 1990, would stop rising by 2030 or earlier.
Also, this year China government has announced already a plan to reduce air pollution by taxing and limiting coal use.
and carbon emissions could level off sometime between 2025 and 2030. But, says Karplus, there is still uncertainty over
The pact is ugely importantfor global climate change policy efforts because China has agreed finally to a target related to urning its emissions down in absolute value,
since the world top two emitters have circumvented effectively the reigning geopolitical gridlock over international climate policy l
In this environment there s the opportunity to be very creative with business models Tighe says. Examples include pay-peruse analytics risk-sharing reimbursement and patient self-payment.
In this environment there s the opportunity to be very creative with business models Tighe says. Examples include pay-peruse analytics risk-sharing reimbursement and patient self-payment.
#Blame the Weather for Last Year s Rise in U s. Carbon dioxide emissions A colder winter was one of the main reasons carbon dioxide emissions from energy use rose in the United states by 2. 5 percent in 2013
and relatively small changes in fuel prices are enough to counteract the emissions reductions that have resulted from greater solar
and ultrasonic sensors could be used to sense the environment around a person, and to recognize gestures.
and dealing with suddenly changing environments, will remain difficult or expensive to automate for decades to come.
It is about time that we take a more comprehensive global approach to delta sustainability
and Sustainability run by New york city Mayor. This organization wanted to understand residents ideas about the city s sustainability plan
and integrate any new thoughts. The Mayor s Office began with a list of 25 seed items that it asked people to compare in pairwise fashion
since cement production is responsible for more than 5 percent of all man-made carbon dioxide emissions. The Norcem Brevik cement works tucked into a scenic harbor south of Oslo has used waste heat to drive a process called amine scrubbing that at test scales removed between 30 and 40 percent of the total emissions
Some more far-out ideas for capturing carbon from cement making include using concentrated sunlight to drive the production process (see New Cement-Making Method Could Slash Carbon emissions.
A new device could reduce that waste cutting fuel consumption and carbon emissions by as much as 3 percent and saving companies millions of dollars.
Three percent might not seem like much but for context air travel accounts for 2 percent of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions.
It may even be possible to adjust these proportions by growing coconuts in different environments.
which typically have to deal with more complex environments. Izhikevich acknowledges that training a robot via demonstration
and making sure the genes are stable says Dean Price a professor of medicine biology and environment at Australian National University.
Bhowmik also showed how data from a tablet s 3-D sensor can be used to build very accurate augmented reality games where a virtual character viewed on a device s screen integrates into the real environment.
which account for far more carbon emissions. Even so it has long been considered a relatively lousy way to store energy because of its low efficiency about 65 percent of the energy in the original electricity is lost.
It s an emerging type of economic environment arising from the digitization of fast-growing multilayered highly interactive real-time connections among people devices and businesses.#
But while social mobile and cloud computing helped set the groundwork for the Networked Economy it s important for businesses to understand that this revolutionary economic environment goes far beyond those technologies creating unprecedented new opportunities for collaboration and customization.
Luth says it is working on a program that will incorporate the audio in a person environment with the data being collected to try to determine what theye doing.
calling into question its lofty goals to use natural gas to help clean up its air and control the growth of greenhouse gas emissions.
modeling human hands and faces, not all kinds of objects and environments. After building up a set of training data,
since it has so many implications for navigating Xbox and Windows environments, but Kohli points out that the machine learning techniques could transfer anywhere. he only limitation is
it has to constantly shuttle information back and forth from the memory store bottleneck that slows things down and wastes energy.
which wastes huge amounts of sapphire. GT uses a different approach in its new machine,
and advances in analytic software now make it possible to capture vast amounts of information about our individual makeup and the environment around us.
#How to Clean the Gas and Oil industries Most Contaminated water In a nondescript site in Midland, Texas, an inexpensive new process is cleaning up some of the most contaminated water aroundhe extremely salty stuff that comes up with oil at wells. By the end
The technology may provide a way to deal with the increasing amounts of contaminated water the fossil fuel industry is generating as it pursues more and more difficult-to-reach deposits.
Many oil formations can produce as much as five barrels of contaminated water for every one barrel of oil.
The remaining waste is disposed then as sludge in landfills. The project is being done with Pioneer Natural resources, an oil company in Texas. Anurag Bajpayee,
Nguyen and Banic say it will work with existing devices such as a desktop PC or a Cave Autonomous Virtual Environment.
It could allow you to personalize your environment, said Cory Cornelius, a researcher at Intel Labs who developed the technology while a Phd student at Dartmouth. f
In a trial, the device worked with 98 percent accuracyood enough to sort out signals in a cluttered environment.
and Environment Concentration at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, is that at least three other solar companiesirst Solar, Yingli Solar,
This kind of farming has a significant impact on the environment. Commercial greenhouses have to be lit
and thus sustainability and the technology relationship between the house and its inhabitants can be extended to a wider world.
Billinghurst says. hat could help with how immersed you feel in a game or virtual environment or even with wearable devices
It doesn address pollution from mining and separating rare earth oxides from other materials in the ore (other new processes are being developed to address those issuesee he Rare-Earth Crisis. But for metals such as aluminum and magnesium,
A European project, called SARTRE (Safe Road trains for the Environment), has been exploring ways for vehicles to travel in platoons since 2009.
or SCID (this condition is referred sometimes to as ubble boy diseasebecause children afflicted may live in protected environments
and storing it underground could help address climate change, but some experts worry that the gas will leak back out.
Last week, a major U n. climate report called attention to the importance of carbon capture and storage technology (CCS) for dealing with climate change
whose research suggests that earthquakes could cause carbon dioxide gas to leak out of underground storage sites,
and others have done shows that bacteria can surprise us with the speed with which resistance can develop in complex environment...
and develop strategies to enhance the patient's living environment, "he said. Alzheimer's is one of the common brain disorders that affects nearly 35 million people worldwide.
and reduce their impact on the environment. More of the devices are being made, reports ABC News,
and reduce their impact on the environment. More of the devices are being made, reports ABC News,
which were able to stimulate the growth of the cell in an artificial environment. If a patient loses more than 20 per cent of the tissue in a functioning area,
when there's a big disaster in an urban environment, hundreds of houses collapsed, and there's only a certain number of trained dogs,
when there's a big disaster in an urban environment, hundreds of houses collapsed, and there's only a certain number of trained dogs,
#Indian scientists develop e-Nose to sniff out hazardous gases Indian scientists have developed a sensor-based'Electronic Nose'for sniffing out variety of gases at pulp and paper mill industries and environmental monitoring at other
may adversely affect human health and environment. This sophisticated portable device can measure odour concentration
These gases beyond a certain concentration may adversely affect the environment and human health.""This newly developed'Electronic Nose'helps in continuous monitoring of these gases,
Each of the 94 modules were 3d printed using a 6-axis robot arm in the Robotic Fabrication Lab at the nearby College of Architecture and Environmental design at Kent State university in Ohio, USA.
it doesn necessarily highlight the potential that additive manufacturing might have for the environment at a time where more automakers are shifting over to hybrid engines and green technologies.
Among others who want to highlight the disruptive new approach to auto manufacturing that incorporates 3d printing to dramatically reduce the pollution,
and pollution generated by manufacturing. It also holds the promise of making large-scale car manufacturing affordable for small teams of innovators.
In addition to less damage being made to the environment and a user wallet the design also causes less wear on the roadways, too."
while saving energy and generating less pollution.""While the Node presents Divergent Microfactoriesnew technology, the Blade presents the new technology in context as the world first 3d printed supercar.
while also reducing the health and environmental impacts of traditional manufacturing. Needless to say between the developments in self-driving cars as well as disruptions to car manufacturing itself,
is a part in the strategy of forming collaboration in an open and interdisciplinary innovative environment.
Additionally, replicating the production process that has proven to be successful in their own controlled lab environment has proven to be an expensive endeavor, too.
which is currently being developed by Professor Jayanta Sahu along with his colleagues from the University of Southampton's Zepler Institute and co-investigator Dr Shoufeng Yang from the Faculty of engineering and Environment,
3d bioprinting is a hot topic in the field of tissue engineering. owever it usually requires a printing environment that isn't compatible with living cells
What more, the body temperature environment needed to manufacture this material means that production costs remain relatively low.
the result can be adapted to a human environment. Key is the use of a patient own autologous cells to prevent immune reactions.
and toes to interact with our environment. Without a limb, our ability to hold a hot cup of coffee is taken away
and in producing less overall waste in the manufacturing process. 3d printed products like the University of Birmingham catalyst bed,
The system was tested in a simulated mission environment at Aerojet Rocketdyne's facility in Los angeles, California, US.
and how we understand the Mars environment surrounding the rover. Onsight will use real rover data
and extend the Curiosity mission existing planning tools by creating a 3-D simulation of the Martian environment where scientists around the world can meet.
The tool will assistesearchers in better understanding the environment and workspace of robotic spacecraft something that can be quite challenging with their traditional suite of tools.
storing energy and capturing carbon dioxide emissions from factories and power plants, "Bao said. Supercapacitorsto see how the new material performed in real-world conditions,
and quantify small molecules in biofluids, in a contaminant-free environment. This breakthrough is made possible by a highly organized,
Recently the emergence of green technology markets of products such as direct drive wind turbine power systems hybrid and electric vehicles and energy storage units have increased the demand for permanent magnets.
environments. The findings are published this week in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing. The group's coupled microcantilevers measure mass on the cellular
it doesn't require a special measurement environment, such as an ultrahigh vacuum,"said Hiroshi Yabuno, a professor at the University of Tsukaba in Japan.
As all biological processes must take place in a liquid environment this makes the group's cantilevers ideal for processes such as detecting DNA hybridization
"From the features of the proposed method, it's easy to expect that we can obtain the same accuracy in a liquid environment,
which is impossible in existing methods, even in any measurement environments.""Future work for Yabuno and his colleagues involves using the cantilevers to obtain high-accuracy quantitative measurements of biological samples such as human cells and DNA in liquid media d
as the atoms jointly move to the next trough. t like an earthquake, Vuletic says. here force building up,
#Carbon nanotube-Based Water Desalination and Purification Technology Awarded Patent Mitra's new carbon nanotube immobilized membrane (CNIM) is an energy-efficient device designed to filter higher concentrations of salt than is currently feasible through reverse osmosis, one of the standard
It is used also to remove pollutants such as volatile organic compounds (VOCS)- chemicals routinely used in solvents-from water."
At the same time, droughts caused by climate change are reducing supply in many regions of the world, including parts of the U s,
Membrane distillation is a water desalination process in which heated salt water passes through a tubelike membrane,
and nitrogen dioxide is a major contributor to smog, she said. he ability to monitor such gases in production facilities
while the ability to sense nitrogen dioxide allows for a constant monitoring of pollution levels in crowded cities.
Cantilever oscillations make it possible to determine the chemical composition of the environment in which the chip is placed.
which changes during a chemical reaction between the cantilever and the environment. By placing different reagents on the cantilever,
it'll capture the viral particles in the analyzed environment. Oscillations will occur at a lower
The optical activity is considered to be an important indicator of chiral environment. It has the ability to rotate the polarized light plane to the left
must be sealed completely from any contaminant in the environment, Cima says. here was no precedent for that.
of life-a cellular recycling unit with a role in many diseases. The proteasome complex is present in all multicellular organisms,
Blocking the proteasome prevents this regulated recycling of amino acids and triggers controlled cell death, particularly in fast-dividing cells typical of cancer.
"Our study zooms in to display the proteasome complex-a recycling unit which plays a critical role in our cells-in far greater detail than we have seen ever before in the electron microscope.
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